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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

Carmen Maria Machado's haunted feminine

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

How to Use Fiction and Short Stories to Come to Terms With the Horror and the Pleasure of Just Having a Body

Carmen: How do we use fiction and short stories to come to terms with the horrible and wonderful things about moving through the world in our horrible and wonderful body? Carmen: Fiction has been a way to sort of place my mind in my body, but it's happening in a very abstract way. "I feel like you can get so in your head about, I mean, I'm a hypochondriac," she says.

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